Gift of Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut.
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Something that I love about Kafka is that I enjoy and feel spiritual experiences from reading him even if I have no clue what is going on in the story. Examples include “A Judgment” and “A Country Doctor.” These stories feel like the literary equivalent of a David Lynch short, and to try and parse out a meaning from them feels to me almost an injustice (though I could be naive in that respect). Even during stories where I can come up with an idea as to “the meaning of it all,” such as “In the Penal Colony” and “The Metamorphosis,” there still remains an underlying surrealism that carries with it a hint of unidentified menace. I find myself uncertain whether to laugh, cry, or hide. That is the beauty of these stories to me. I need a break from Kafka for the moment, but I am so excited that there is so much more of his writing I have not encountered yet.
